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1992 · Film · documentary · 76 min
Directed by Kevin Rafferty, James Ridgeway
This is a documentary about the 1992 New Hampshire primaries. It includes much footage of candidates as they meet people, and just before they go "on-air".
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While it's momentarily surprising that the video feeds aren't encrypted, remember that the lead time on this type of equipment is often measured in decades. The drones deployed right now were probably designed in the early 90s, using early 90s computers.
No video feed back then was encrypted --- military or otherwise --- because the computers with the power even to digitize video in real time, let alone digitize it and then encrypt the digital stream, would have been huge.
It was a common selling point for satellite receivers back then that you could buy them and use them to watch the raw feed of just about everything being broadcast, because it was all analog streams being relayed in the clear. There's actually a pretty good movie floating around the internet called "Feed," [1] made by a guy recording satellite feeds of the 1992 election coverage.
[1] http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0104244/